[3] þótt þú sér oss í sinni ‘even though you may be of help to us’: The line echoes the preceding stanza, HjǪ 4/3. The expression vera e-m í sinni means ‘follow’ in the sense of ‘support, be of help to sby’.
References
- Internal references
- Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 4 (Vargeisa/Álfsól, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 497.